Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:23:28 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Regulated names (was: Crazy Laws) Message-ID: <4.1.19981224112052.05a31740@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <36822D20.DCF23B22@uk.radan.com> References: <368102F5.C90B94D5@uk.radan.com> <19981224102628.S12346@freebie.lemis.com>
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At 12:01 PM 12/24/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >That is unbelievable. To impose such restrictions on their own citizens >seems authoritarian enough, but to extend it to foreign nationals (I >assume neither of you have dual nationality), and on the grounds that >another country might object, is really OTT. Anyway, is your surname not >of French origin (Le Hey)?. The French preoccupation with the purity of their language has inspired no small amount of parody. Chief among these were the Pepe Le Pew cartoons, in which people encountering the principal character would shout: "C'est le pole-chat!" "Sacre' bleu! Le grand sconque de pew!" and other memorable bits of "Franglish." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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